THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE - “These figures do not attempt to allege that foreign
nationals in the country illegally commit more
crimes than other groups,” the report states. “It
simply identifies thousands of crimes that should
not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the
perpetrator should not be here.”
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

Loren Elliott / AFP / Getty
JOHN BINDER11 Apr 20191,671

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Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime, costs American taxpayers about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steve Camarota says.

During an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Camarota said his research has revealed the enormous financial burden that illegal immigration has on America’s working and middle class taxpayers in terms of public services, depressed wages, and welfare.

“In a person’s lifetime, I’ve estimated that an illegal border crosser might cost taxpayers … maybe over $70,000 a year as a net cost,” Camarota said. “And that excludes the cost of their U.S.-born children, which gets pretty big when you add that in.”

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“Once [an illegal alien] has a child, they can receive cash welfare on behalf of their U.S.-born children,” Camarota explained. “Once they have a child, they can live in public housing. Once they have a child, they can receive food stamps on behalf of that child. That’s how that works.”

Camarota said the education levels of illegal aliens, border crossers, and legal immigrants are largely to blame for the high level of welfare usage by the f0reign-born population in the U.S., noting that new arrivals tend to compete for jobs against America’s poor and working class communities.

In past waves of mass immigration, Camarota said, the U.S. did not have an expansive welfare system. Today’s ever-growing welfare system, coupled with mass illegal and legal immigration levels, is “extremely problematic,” according to Camarota, for American taxpayers.

The RAISE Act — reintroduced in the Senate by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) — would cut legal immigration levels in half and convert the immigration system to favor well-educated foreign nationals, thus relieving American workers and taxpayers of the nearly five-decade-long wave of booming immigration. Currently, mass legal immigration redistributes the wealth of working and middle class Americans to the country’s top earners.

“Virtually none of that existed in 1900 during the last great wave of immigration, when we also took in a number of poor people. We didn’t have a well-developed welfare state,” Camarota continued:

We’re not going to stop [the welfare state] tomorrow. So in that context, bringing in less educated people who are poor is extremely problematic for public coffers, for taxpayers in a way that it wasn’t in 1900 because the roads weren’t even paved between the cities in 1900. It’s just a totally different world. And that’s the point of the RAISE Act is to sort of bring in line immigration policy with the reality say of a large government … and a welfare state. [Emphasis added]

The immigrants are not all coming to get welfare and they don’t immediately sign up, but over time, an enormous fraction sign their children up. It’s likely the case that of the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, more than half are signed up for Medicaid — which is our most expensive program. [Emphasis added]

As Breitbart News has reported, U.S. households headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of households headed by native-born Americans.

Every year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

Who's coming in and getting that instant customer service legal immigrants don't get? Well, people like Mirian Zelaya Gomez, a single mom with two kids and a fondness for Instagram luxury-life glamour shots who got her name in the news as "Lady Frijoles," the Honduran caravan migrant who disdained donated Mexican food in Tijuana, and who told the press she was migrating to the states to get free medical care for her kids. She's since been arrested for assaulting a relative who had given her housing in Dallas. Here she was, being booked:

Trump was elected in part on the promise of creating jobs, but
how about those who stopped looking for work?

Nicholas Eberstadt, the
Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute,
estimates there are 10 million men who are jobless and no longer looking for
work. According to calculations using 2014 data, an estimated 3.6 million women
are in the same situation.

President-elect Donald Trump
has announced a raft of policies meant to spur economic growth and create jobs,
but thought needs to be given to what specific measures might help this urgent
situation.

How to address this crisis depends
on what one understands the problem to be. A graph showing the prime-age
employment rate for men provides a kind of Rorschach test for possible
responses.

Jared Bernstein, senior
fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, former economic adviser
to Vice President Joe Biden, and author of, most recently, “The Reconnection
Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity,” focuses on the cyclical upturns in
the jagged line, on those periods of prosperity when workers regain jobs that
had been lost.

Eberstadt focuses on the
straight trend line, which has been going inexorably and disastrously downward
for decades.

Bernstein and Eberstadt
represent two typical and contrasting approaches to the unemployment
problem.

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If you look at the employment rate for prime-age workers,
they have actually clawed back two-thirds of their losses since the great
recession.

— JARED BERNSTEIN

Bernstein published the
graph in a chapter he contributed to Eberstadt’s book “Men Without Work,” in
which he critiques Eberstadt’s diagnosis of the employment crisis.

For Bernstein, the key is a
missing demand for labor.

“If you look at the
employment rate for prime-age workers, they have actually clawed back
two-thirds of their losses since the Great Recession,” Bernstein said in an
interview. “That doesn’t sound to me like a group that has given up. It sounds
to me like a group that is not facing ample opportunity.”

For Eberstadt, the problem
is a detachment from work.

Using various government
databases, Eberstadt gives a composite portrait of those men who are out of the
workforce and not looking for work.

They don’t read newspapers,
seem to have few familial responsibilities, and tend not to be involved in a
church or their communities. They spend most of their time entertaining
themselves with TV or hand-held devices; 31 percent admitted to survey takers
that they used illegal drugs.

Bernstein counters this
portrait by noting that the causal connection may go from a lack of employment
opportunities to suffering from depression, which then leads to these men
planting themselves on the couch.

As to the individual motives
of the non-working, Bernstein said, “We just don’t know.” His advice to Trump
is to aggressively pursue full employment, which involves the federal
government using a number of different tools.

An officer waits to escort Harvey Lesser, an unemployed
software developer, from his apartment after serving him with a court order for
eviction in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 11, 2009.

Stimulus and Subsidies

Bernstein believes the key
to the downward trend his graph shows is the disappearance of manufacturing
jobs. He favors trade policies that will reduce America’s chronic trade
imbalances, which will create more demand for domestic manufacturing.

Bernstein also favors an
infrastructure program, with the caveat that “you have to do it right,” he
said.

He would like to see the
federal government get involved in communities that “don’t have enough
businesses, child care slots, supermarkets, and stores—these are a classic
market failure.”

The federal government could
subsidize private employers in these neighborhoods, giving them an incentive to
move their businesses there.

Bernstein also favors
special efforts to help those with a criminal record, and Eberstadt agrees
finding ways to help this population is key to addressing the problem of
non-working adults. He estimates that, by the end of 2016, there will be 20
million with a felony conviction in their past.

Source: Jared Bernstein’s analysis of Bureau of Labor
statistics in “Men Without Work” by Nicholas Eberstadt

Bernstein supports the Ban
the Box initiative, which calls for removing the box on employment applications
that must be ticked by anyone with a criminal record.

He also would like to see
direct job creation. The federal government would offer a heavily subsidized
wage, and at the local level there would be training for specific jobs that
would be available in that area.

He would also like to see
the federal government fund an apprenticeship program, which would involve
recruiting local businesses.

Finally, Bernstein wants to
see the federal government get the macro economic policies right to support
full employment. This means using monetary policy—primarily interest rates set
by the Federal Reserve—and fiscal policy to stimulate the economy. In
Bernstein’s view, we took our foot off the pedal of fiscal stimulus too
soon—the United States should have carried larger deficits in the years
following the Great Recession.

Eric Gilliam, an unemployed coal miner, in his garage at
his home in Lynch, Ky., on Oct. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Small Business

Eberstadt said it is “small
not big business that employs most Americans.” Over the last eight years, he
said, there has been only marginally more small business births compared to
small business deaths. A healthy labor market will be one with “many, many new
businesses being formed,” he said. Part of the solution? Undo regulatory
strangulation and rationalize the tax code.

While Eberstadt agrees that
manufacturing jobs are important, he would urge the Trump administration not to
“fetishize” manufacturing jobs. The percentage of manufacturing jobs in
developed economies around the world has steadily dropped. “Jobs that employ
people are good,” Eberstadt said, “whether they have the word manufacturing in
them or not.”

In order to protect the
manufacturing jobs we do have, Eberstadt urges that we not get into a trade war
with China, Mexico, or other countries, saying that trade wars lose jobs, they
don’t create jobs.

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Clearly there has been a change in the way most people
think about what is decent and appropriate for able-bodied, working-age men to
do with their lives

— NICHOLAS EBERSTADT, economist, American Enterprise Institute

Because our entitlement
programs are administered locally, they tether people to the states in which
they are receiving benefits. Finding a way to cut that tie will give people
mobility, which will open up more job opportunities.

Eberstadt’s book is meant to
initiate “a broad conversation on our ‘men without work’ problem, a
conversation of many voices and differing perspectives.” One important solution
is to bring this mostly invisible problem “into the public spotlight.”

Shortcomings in the data we
have limit the kinds of conversations we have. The Bureau of Labor Statistics
does not count the 13.6 million people who have stopped looking for work as
unemployed. When the American public is given an unemployment rate of 4.9
percent, the crisis of the non-working is hidden from them.

The government surveys that
are conducted do not reveal the mindsets of those men who are disconnected
from work—vital information for anyone who wants to understand this crisis. The
Social Security Disability Insurance program does not have an effective audit
that would tell us whether it is being used as a substitute for employment
insurance.

Stigma

Eberstadt notes that
relevant context for the crisis of the non-working is a change in our society’s
“mores, and viewpoints, and motivations.”

“Clearly there has been a
change in the way most people think about what is decent and appropriate for
able-bodied, working-age men to do with their lives in their prime working
ages,” Eberstadt said.

Over half of non-working men
in their prime years are getting money from at least one government disability
program, according to Eberstadt. These funds, Eberstadt writes, finance the
non-working’s decision not to work.

He would like to see these
programs have a work requirement, as was done 20 years ago with single mothers
on welfare. Requiring work stigmatizes non-work and so provides a moral
incentive for individuals to move off the couch and back into the workaday
world.

Bernstein writes he
sees “no good for making these programs less generous or further conditioning
them on work.”

Stigma, Eberstadt said, “is
often a kinder and gentler way of achieving social objectives than police
power.”

Trump: I Meant What I Said About Closing The Mexican Border … A Year From Now, Maybe

ALLAHPUNDITPosted at 8:41 pm on April 4, 2019

It was funny reading news stories over the last few days about White House staff scrambling to figure out how seriously to take his threat to close the border immediately to stop illegal immigration.

They had to prepare, just in case. The preparation took two forms, notes WaPo: First, looking for ways to ease the ensuing economic pain (Larry Kudlow took to gabbing about keeping “truck roads” open), and second, trying to talk him out of it, for the love of God. Mission accomplished, it seems. As of early this afternoon, the border closure had been postponed to 2020 at the earliest.

I’m guessing that the “one-year warning” is more like an 18-month warning. Trump’s not going to play economic Russian roulette a few months out from an election by closing the Mexican border.

How was he convinced to change his mind? With two forms of economic arguments, I think. One was the marco argument, that the national economy would take a major hit and auto manufacturing in particular might be brought to its knees if the border suddenly turned imporous. Some of the estimates were gruesome:

Completely shutting down the U.S. border with Mexico, as Trump has threatened, could halt all U.S. automotive manufacturing within a week, impacting at least 1 million jobs, said Kristin Dziczek, vice president of industry, labor and economics at the Center for Automotive Research. She said virtually all U.S. auto production relies on some key parts from Mexico or Central America and that these products are brought into the United States on trucks or trains.

Sen. John Kennedy estimated a potential economic cost of $1-2 billion per day. Shoppers would have noticed immediately at the supermarket too, with some produce suddenly scarce or conspicuously more expensive. A man who’s looking to install political allies on the Fed to keep the policy path clear for sustained economic growth before he faces voters again next fall obviously doesn’t want to obstruct that path himself with something like an indefinite border closure.

But there was a more specific argument for Trump not to do it as well: In two words, Beto O’Rourke. What I mean is that Texas Republicans adamantly opposed any closing of the border, knowing how severe the impact would be on their home state. Ted Cruz issued a statement strongly denouncing the plan; even Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the Trumpiest high-ranking politician in the state, urged POTUS not to do it. Officials in Texas border towns fretted to the media that they’d be ruined without commerce from Mexico, a development “akin to dropping a bomb on its economy” wrote WaPo of the town of Eagle Pass. If Texas were in the bag for Trump next fall that might not have weighed heavily on him. But Cruz’s close call with O’Rourke last year has party strategists worried that Texas may be purpler than thought, particularly considering that Trump is less popular there than Cruz is.

The odds of Texas going blue next year are slim but not as slim as they used to be, especially if native son Beto is the Dem nominee. Trump can’t take any risks that might alienate Republican-leaning swing voters there. And so, inevitably, his threat to close the border immediately became a threat to maybe do it in a year. Possibly.

Either way, it’d be good if he had a policy of not threatening to do stuff like this unless and until he intends to follow through. The threat can have adverse consequences, you see:

Was just talking to a former CBP official who said human smugglers use Trump's threats to build a wall or close the border to ramp up business by telling potential migrants they need to hurry up and get to U.S. or risk being shut out, driving up border crossings.

“Hurry up and sneak in before America locks the back door” is inevitable opportunistic advertising among coyotes and a price worth paying *if* you really are in the process of shutting the back door. If you aren’t then merely threatening to do so encourages a stampede to no end.

Here’s Newt yesterday on “Fox & Friends” advising the show’s biggest fan not to close the border. I think the fact that so many people who normally devote so much time to cheering him on, from Gingrich to Cruz to Patrick, were warning him against this really drove home to Trump what a mistake it would have been.

President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is continuing its mass release of border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States, most recently releasing more than 17,000 migrants in less than two weeks.

According to newly obtained data by Breitbart News, DHS released about 17,065 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S. between March 21 and April 1, a mere 12-day period. Since December 21, 2018, DHS has released about 125,565 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the country.

The Catch and Release process often entails federal immigration officials busing border crossers into nearby border cities and dropping them off with the promise that they will show up for their immigration and asylum hearings, sometimes years later. The overwhelming majority of border crossers and illegal aliens are never deported from the country once they are released into the U.S.

Since December 21, 2018, DHS has released:

12,745 border crossers into the San Diego, California area

22,000 border crossers into the Phoenix, Arizona area

37,500 border crossers into the El Paso, Texas area

53,320 border crossers into the San Antonio, Texas area

In the last 12 days, DHS released nearly 6,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the San Antonio area, alone, forcing American communities to absorb the influx of soaring illegal immigration levels at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been tasked with releasing border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S., ICE officials have confirmed, under the direction of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Acting ICE Director Ron Vitiello.

The Catch and Release policy has strained ICE resources, forcing fewer arrests of illegal aliens living in the interior of the country in recent months.

At current rates, DHS is on track to release about 500,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S. by the end of this year. The mass release of border crossers has coincided with a surge of illegal immigration at the southern border, where about one to 1.5 million illegal aliens, in total, could arrive in the U.S. this year at current projections.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a cellphone repair company in Texas on Wednesday, arresting 280 suspected undocumented immigrants. It's the largest work site raid in the country in more than a decade.

Former Border Patrol Chief: CBP to Release 650,000 Illegals into U.S. This Year

(CNSNews.com) – Former Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan told the Senate Homeland Security Committee Thursday that the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) anticipates that 650,000 illegal immigrants will be released into the United States this year.

Morgan cited CBP estimates that the agency anticipates apprehending 1 million illegal immigrants trying to cross the border this year. He said 60 to 65 percent of illegals entering the country are families or minors, who are typically released into the U.S.

Following this trend, Morgan predicted that 650,000 illegals will be released into the country.

During his opening testimony, Morgan dispelled what he said were “false narratives” some have about illegal immigration.

“Here’s a couple false narratives quick I’d like to address: only 15 percent of those coming in … are found to have valid asylum claims, which really debunks the uniform outrage often used that immigrants are fleeing from extreme violence and persecution. In fact, recent statistics that I’ve seen have shown that the murder rate per capita has declined in the northern triangle countries. Baltimore, for example, has a higher murder rate per capita than Guatemala,” he said.

“The fact is, they’re being here for two reasons: economic equality and family reunification. Neither are valid claims under the asylum process. Nevertheless, we continue to facilitate an abuse of our laws and the generosity of this country. As a society, we cannot turn our backs and ignore the law, especially Congress. We can’t selectively enforce the laws based on political ideology or personal sense of morality,” Morgan said.

“There’s another false narrative, which goes something like this: But the numbers of illegal immigrants are way down, so it can’t possibly be a crisis. It’s essential to look at those numbers to evaluate their true meaning,” he said.

“In the late 1990s and 2000, there was 1.5 million apprehensions on the border, but as previously mentioned, the overwhelming majority were Mexican adult, of which we deported 90 percent of them – sometimes within hours of being apprehended. Additionally, one-third of those apprehended were recidivism, meaning the same person going back and forth, so those numbers are really about a million, but back then, everyone agreed it’s a crisis,” the senator said.

“Today, 60 to 65 percent of those illegally crossing are family units and minors, and because of our broken laws and policies, those individuals are allowed into the country. So let’s do the math. One million this year anticipated. That’s means we’re going to release 650,000 individuals into this country that are going to remain here indefinitely. This makes the current crisis in my opinion the worst we’ve ever experienced,” Morgan added.

TX Assistant AG: 190K Illegal Aliens Jailed, 32K Committed Assaults in State in Last 8 Years

Jeff Mateer, first assistant attorney general in Texas, told Breitbart News that illegal aliens committed “over 32,000 assaults [and] 28,000 drug offenses” in the Lone Star state over the past eight years. He joined this week’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday for an interview with host Amanda House.

“Illegal aliens continue to cross the border,” said Mateer.” In the last eight years, 190,000 booked into Texas jails, over 32,000 assaults, 28,000 drug offenses. In Texas, we’re bearing the brunt — our state is bearing the brunt — of these illegal aliens who are crossing the border illegally and committing crimes.”

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Mateer added, “It’s drawing on our resources at the state level. It’s drawing on resources at the federal level. We’ve got a serious problem, and someone needs to act. Fortunately, this president recognizes this serious problem and is willing to act.”

Mateer speculated on the future of President Donald Trump’s consideration of closing parts of the U.S.-Mexico border to halt record numbers of migrants entering the country. “I think eventually, it’s going to go to the United States Supreme Court,” he predicted. “If the president follows through this week or in the weeks to come on his threat to shut down the border, then my prediction is you will see liberal interest groups and perhaps state attorneys general in Democrat states challenging the president’s action, and it will eventually — hopefully, in short and due course — end its way at the Supreme Court.”

“Again, I think the Constitution has vested the president with a lot of power to deal with national emergencies,” said Mateer. “The Congress in 1976 passed the National Emergencies Act. It gave the president specific powers to declare a national emergency. He has done that. He has the power to act, and like so many of our problems today, I think this is headed to the court and headed to the Supreme Court.”

“If Congress is not going to act, then the president is going to have to act,” stated Mateer.

Mexican Border City Homicides Increase 74 Percent Over Prior Year

Violence in the border city of Ciudad Juárez continues at an alarming rate this year with a 74.6 percent increase in homicides during the first three months of this year over last.

During the first three months of this year, officials reported a 74.6 percent increase in homicides compared to the same three-month period of 2018. January of 2019 saw an increase of 33 percent, February — 118.6 percent, and March — 58.1 percent more homicides than the previous year, according to local media reports.

From 2008 to 2011 a cartel war broke out making Ciudad Juárez the most violent city in the world. Cartels fought a bloody war over dominance of the valuable city which sits just across the border from El Paso, Texas. The violence engulfing the city today is attributed to an ongoing turf war between rival drug cartels. Those factions are the Juarez cartel—La Linea against the Sinaloa cartel’s La Gente Nueva. The cartel factions are fighting for control over smuggling routes into the United States.

Local gangs aligned with the major cartels carry on the fight for the lucrative street-level markets. The bitter turf battle is not only occurring in Ciudad Juárez but also throughout the state of Chihuahua.

The new criminal justice system implemented nationwide in 2016 is also blamed as many street-level dealers and users are in and out of custody rather quickly— only to become involved in homicide cases over drug disputes. Several governors and state attorneys general admitted to Breitbart News that the new justice system is 10 to 15 years from being properly functional due to the drastic procedural overhauls.

During the first three months of this year, the following homicides have been registered:

January 108,

February 95,

March 113

After a downward trend in 2015, homicides in Ciudad Juarez have been on a steady uptick.

Ciudad Juarez Homicides per Year

2015–311

2016–538

2017–772

2018–1247

Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.)

The five federal court districts that sit along the U.S.-Mexico border were the top five districts in the country for the number of defendants they convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in fiscal 2018, according to data published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ranked No. 1. It convicted 8,179 criminal defendants and sentenced 7,126 of them to imprisonment in the last fiscal year.

It was followed by the Southern District of Texas (6,140/5,939), the Southern District of California (5,723/5,470), the District of Arizona (4,731/4,378) and the District of New Mexico (3,979/3,923).

The combined jurisdictions of these five federal district courts cover the U.S.-Mexico border from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico.

The other five U.S. District Courts that rounded out the top 10 were the Southern District of Florida (2,279/2,104), the Northern District of Texas (1,504/1,431), the Middle District of Florida (1,568/1,388), the Southern District of New York (1,369/1,283) and the Central District of California (1,141/946).

The 7,126 criminals convicted and sentenced to imprisonment by the Western District of Texas in fiscal 2018 were more than five times the 1,283 convicted and sentenced to imprisonment by the Southern District of New York.

In fiscal 2018, according to Table D-7-1 published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, a total of 79,704 criminal defendants had their cases disposed of by U.S. District Courts.

Of these, only 6,595 -- or 8.3 percent -- were not convicted. That included 6,275 whose cases were dismissed, 237 who were acquitted in a jury trial and 83 who were acquitted in a bench trial.

The other 73,109 criminal defendants were convicted and sentenced to some type of penalty. Of these, 1,330 were only fined, and 6,437 were released under supervision and 65,342 were sentenced to imprisonment.

In the nation-leading Western District of Texas, the court disposed of the cases of 8,470 defendants. Of these, only 291 -- or 3.4 percent -- were not convicted. These included 273 whose cases were dismissed, 14 who were acquitted in a jury trial and 4 who were acquitted in a bench trial.

The 8,179 defendants who were convicted and sentenced in the Western District of Texas included 10 who were only fined, 1,043 who were released under supervision and 7,126 who were sentenced to imprisonment.

The most common alleged offenses in the Western District of Texas, not surprisingly, were immigration-related, according to Table D-9-1 published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Of the 8,470 defendants whose cases the court disposed of in fiscal 2018, 4,995 were categorized as "improper reentry by an alien." Another 860 were described as "other immigration offenses."

In fiscal year 2000, according to Table 2 in the United States Attorneys' Annual Statistical Report for that year, U.S. district courts found 57,746 criminal defendants convicted of crimes. The five top districts that year for defendants found guilty were the Western District of Texas (4,129), the Southern District of Texas (3,984), the Southern District of California (3,960), Arizona (3,177) and the Southern District of Florida (2,047).

New Mexico finished sixth (1,689).

In fiscal 2010, according to Table 2 in that year's U.S. Attorneys' report, U.S. district courts found 81,934 defendants were convicted of crimes. The top five districts that year were the Southern District of Texas (8,406), the Western District of Texas (8,218), Arizona (5,715), the Southern District of California (4,773) and New Mexico (3,905).

Southern Florida dropped to sixth (2,570).

The lesson: The political leaders of this nation have known for years that the sort of criminal activity that is prosecuted in federal courts -- as demonstrated by the government's own data on federal court convictions -- is disproportionately focused along the nation's southern border.

And they have not fixed it.

AMERICA: NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!

“Part of the problem, Santorum said, has been the arrival of millions of unskilled immigrants — legal and illegal — in the United States. "American workers deserve a shot at [good] jobs," Santorum said. "Over the last 20 years, we have brought into this country, legally and illegally, 35 MILLION mostly unskilled workers. And the result, over that same period of time, workers' wages and family incomes have flatlined." SEN. RICK SANTORUM

The Mexican fascist separatist movement of M.E.Ch.A's goal is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah."

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The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.

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More than half a million illegal immigrants of several dozen nationalities have been apprehended on John Ladd’s sprawling cattle ranch in southeastern Arizona. Ladd has also found 14 dead bodies on his 16,500-acre farm, which has been in his family for well over a century and sits between the Mexican border and historic State Route 92.

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We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.

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“While the Obama Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal that Mexican have transformed parts of the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common.

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ranked No. 1. It convicted 8,179 criminal defendants and sentenced 7,126 of them to imprisonment in the last fiscal year.

It was followed by the Southern District of Texas (6,140/5,939), the Southern District of California (5,723/5,470), the District of Arizona (4,731/4,378) and the District of New Mexico (3,979/3,923).

The combined jurisdictions of these five federal district courts cover the U.S.-Mexico border from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. (There are a total of 94 federal court districts.)

The other five U.S. District Courts that rounded out the top 10 were the Southern District of Florida (2,279/2,104), the Northern District of Texas (1,504/1,431), the Middle District of Florida (1,568/1,388), the Southern District of New York (1,369/1,283) and the Central District of California (1,141/946).

The 7,126 criminals convicted and sentenced to imprisonment by the Western District of Texas in fiscal 2018 were more than five times the 1,283 convicted and sentenced to imprisonment by the Southern District of New York.

In fiscal 2018, according to Table D-7 published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, a total of 79,704 criminal defendants had their cases disposed of by U.S. District Courts.

Of these, only 6,595 — or 8.3 percent — were not convicted. That included 6,275 whose cases were dismissed, 237 who were acquitted in a jury trial and 83 who were acquitted in a bench trial.

The other 73,109 criminal defendants were convicted and sentenced to some type of penalty. Of these, 1,330 were only fined, and 6,437 were released under supervision and 65,342 were sentenced to imprisonment.

In the nation-leading Western District of Texas, the court disposed of the cases of 8,470 defendants. Of these, only 291 — or 3.4 percent — were not convicted. These included 273 whose cases were dismissed, 14 who were acquitted in a jury trial and 4 who were acquitted in a bench trial.

The 8,179 defendants who were convicted and sentenced in the Western District of Texas included 10 who were only fined, 1,043 who were released under supervision and 7,126 who were sentenced to imprisonment.

The most common alleged offenses in the Western District of Texas, not surprisingly, were immigration-related, according to Table D-9 published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Of the 8,470 defendants whose cases the court disposed of in fiscal 2018, 4,995 were categorized as "improper reentry by an alien." Another 860 were described as "other immigration offenses."

In fiscal 2010, according to Table 2 in that year's U.S. Attorneys' report, U.S. district courts found 81,934 defendants were convicted of crimes. The top five districts that year were the Southern District of Texas (8,406), the Western District of Texas (8,218), Arizona (5,715), the Southern District of California (4,773) and New Mexico (3,905).

Southern Florida dropped to sixth (2,570).

The lesson: The political leaders of this nation have known for years that the sort of criminal activity that is prosecuted in federal courts — as demonstrated by the government's own data on federal court convictions — is disproportionately focused along the nation's southern border.